Welcome Back, Friends!
We’re back, baby! Happy July! We are so excited to be back and in the swing of things with new episodes of When We’re Not Hustling & The After Party. July is packed with incredible guests and we’d like to introduce you to the lineup.
As a new feature this season, if you’re subscribed to our Patreon for at least $5/month, you can get all episodes and After Parties a week before they drop!
For July’s After Parties — which you can watch on our YouTube channel or listen to wherever you get your podcasts — we’ve invited everyone’s favorite matriarch, my mom, to be our co-host! Her hilarious and insightful commentary joins my own and Emily’s for a fun deep dive on each episode. After appearing on the show, she also submitted her manuscript for publication, so cross your fingers for her!
On July 1, we start off the season with an interview with Aviva Ruse, a West Hollywood sex worker and comedian, who talks to us about plastic surgery gone wrong and all the wild things that have happened in her life (so far!).
You can find more info about her on her website and on Twitter. And for the more sexy stuff, she also has an Onlyfans!
On July 8, Siri Dahl joins us to talk about powerlifting and finding herself. A powerful episode (pun intended!) that touches on working out, eating as fuel, being seen, and becoming who you want to be. You can find Siri on her website, and on Twitter and Instagram.
On July 15, we talk to Ruby Lynne, a sex worker and content creator, about pup play, what it feels like to not be good at something, and more. Ruby has been having a very exciting month, she just got back from Los Angeles where she did some studio shoots and created a ton of collaboration content that will be dropping on her Onlyfans in the next few months. You can find that, her podcast, and her other links on her website.
On Episode 4, which drops on July 22, we talk with Anna — a child of the internet — about women in tech and the effects of being online. She discusses how to be successful in a world filled with algorithms built to exclude sex workers, and what it was like to always be online.
Please check out some of her recent articles from her website:
Opting In: Coming Out as a Sex Worker in Corporate Tech Spaces
Doxxed by a Republican News Site: Tips for Navigating Doxxing and Protecting Your Digital Identity
The Imperfect Sub: Confronting Feelings of Imperfection and Insecurity in Kink
Personal Style 101: Tips to Finding Your Style Foundations
Scents of Sin: Fragrances Inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins
Last but certainly not least, our final episode for July, dropping on July 29, features an interview with Emery Fields, the only sex worker I have ever hired for myself! He talks about dancing and how it gradually became his life, and the parallels between sex work with couples and teaching couples to dance. Emery Fields is a Philadelphia & NYC-based male escort. You can find him on Twitter or at his website, which he designed himself during the pandemic!
As always, I ask our guests for recommendations. Here are their book recommendations.
Aviva Ruse (Episode 1):
Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries & Letters, by David Kipen
Thriving in Sex Work, by Lola Davina
The Internet Escort’s Handbook, by Amanda Brooks
Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex, by Matilda Bickers, peech breshears, & Janis Luna
Ruby Lynne (Episode 3):
Thriving in Sex Work: Sex Work & Money, by Lola Davina
Anna (Episode 4):
The January 6th Report, by the House January 6th Committee
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, by Kara Swisher
Emery Fields (Episode 5):
The Kingkiller Chronicle Series, by Patrick Rothfuss
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell
Also, Ruby Lynne suggested listening to this podcast (!), and Anna suggested listening to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by the Smashing Pumpkins.